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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1928
Page
4
Dr. E. G. Dexter links weather to conduct citing 550000 cases. He notes violence rises with heat, suicides rise with falling barometer, and personal crises spike on sunny calm days with high winds. May stands out for women, and explanations remain elusive.
In Ardmore Oklahoma a power company faced a tall brick smokestack with no ladder. An aviator failed to drop a brick into the chimney. A skhy rocket could not rise past the taper. A painter released four helium balloons attached to a rope. The balloons floated out the bottom and drifted away until the rope lifted the painter into place.
Peter Banister of the American Cremation league recalled a humor filled anecdote from the Des Moines convention. In Augusta a family split over cremation or burial after the patriarch died, and the eldest son chose to cremation with a twist he said I guess I ll make it spades.
Dr Sidney Wood, an English physician, stated he would die and refused hospital aid after a car struck him. He proclaimed his legs and spine were injured and died the next day despite an ambulance being summoned and friends saying farewells.
A twelve pound nugget of pure gold was found in the Kilo state mines in northeastern Congo. The nugget weighs four by seven inches and resembles a meteorite. Twenty years earlier, prospectors were reassigned after a zone head claimed no gold in his area. He later uncovered rich deposits in a new territory.
A violent, dramatic shipboard scene unfolds as a merchant vessel sinks amid rising waters. The captain orders readiness to shove off while crew members react, and Paul Slelve watches the doomed ship spiral beneath the waves as debris and bubbles mark its final moments.
The famed humorist criticizes American hotels after a New York visit. He recalls a harsh hotel restaurant encounter where a manager challenged his complaint and warned him, saying This ain't no hospital as he walked away.
A brief scene in a shop shows a young woman reviewing shoe trees while an elderly woman watches with curiosity. The elder asks what the items are and later inquires if they are comfortable, signaling a quiet moment of mistaken assumption and subtle questioning.
The Young Womens Christian Association urges its international delegates to study Esperanto for world committee meetings. Representatives from many countries attend, currently using English French and German as official languages. The group hopes to join an Esperanto group at the 1928 meeting.
Garwood Lanzeman, a farmer near Brown City Michigan, found a shoe nailed into the road and waded through mud to save a motorist from a puncture. He retrieved a lucky emblem and a pocketbook buried in mud containing fifty dollars.
Mat Shepard a Covina gardener aged sixty drove his one-hoss shay to Los Angeles for a friend's funeral. Caught in rain he parked the horse inside an unoccupied house. The horse and owner had pleasant dreams until Mrs. Barry the owner found the horse in her living room when showing the place to a prospective tenant.
A psychology magazine urges those prone to nervousness to follow a simple diet. Breakfast should be cereal or fruit with warm milk or chocolate if needed. Lunch should feature a substantial salad or vegetable dinner, occasional lean meat or fish. Dinner combines fruits and nuts with whole wheat bread and butter to nourish the body, calm nerves, and steady the blood.
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